was reported only one mis
take in three issues.
On opposite sides of one
floor-carefully separated
of course-the Sears Roe
buck and Montgomery
Ward mail-order cata
logues are printed. Don
nelley's printed, bound,
and shipped some 67,000,
000 mail-order books for
three principal customers
in 1952.
"Funny about these
catalogues," Mr. Owens
said.
"When a minister
of an Oriental country and
his family visited us, the
ladies said the only Ameri
can publications they felt
they could not go home
without were mail-order
books showing all the
American fashions."
Culturally, Chicago has
attained commanding
heights. It has 20 colleges
and universities and more
than 200 technical schools.
In music its symphony or
chestra is famous, and its
Art Institute ranks high.
There breathes some
thing electrifying in the
very air of the "Windy
City."
Whenever I come
to Michigan Avenue, I
feel a thrill of wonder,
forthistomeisoneof
the most exciting streets
in America (page 783).
Sedate Evanston
Offers Contrast
In quiet contrast to
bustling, roaring Chicago
is sedate Evanston, a resi
dential college community
of nearly 75,000. Evans
ton grew up with North
western University, which
celebrated its 100th anni
versary two years ago.
Northwestern Univer
sity, chartered in 1851,
opened on its lake-front
campus in 1855 and grad
uated its first class-five
students-in 1859. Be
cause of the mingling of
seafaring and academic
life, the town was called
"the finest New England
village in the Midwest."
Colossal Stone Bull Guarded Ancient Persia's Throne Room
A University of Chicago expedition unearthed the 10-ton head and installed
it in the museum of its Oriental Institute. Darius the Great's sculpture
toppled when Alexander destroyed Persepolis, the Persian capital, in 330 B. C.
Missing horns and ears were attached by dowels.